Rustication
Charles Palliser,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
Charles Palliser,Hardcover, English-language edition,Pub by Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc.
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780393088724 (0393088723)
Publish date: November 4th 2013
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 327
Edition language: English
Category:
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Historical Fiction,
Literary Fiction,
Mystery,
19th Century,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Horror,
Suspense,
Gothic,
Victoriana
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Love Gothic toned novels and this was a new author for me so I did not know what to expect. Loved it, it is not scary but is very suspenseful, a winding puzzle, and many characters that are unlikable. Our main character is a young man who has been sent down from college he, has been rusticated, for ...
Coming to a bookshelf near you November 2013Synopsis: Christmas 1863. Seventeen-year-old Richard Shenstone has been sent down from Cambridge under a cloud of suspicion. Addicted to opium and tormented by disturbing sexual desires, he finds temporary refuge in the creaking old mansion inhabited by hi...